Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 17

‘Just think,’ said he, ‘when I asked him how he was going to earn his bread, he actually wanted to learn to shudder.’

Who acts: father, I · What happens: think, say, ask, go, earn, want · To what, where: father, bread, shudder · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
2	Just	just	ADV	_	3 think	advmod
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 asked	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 asked	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 asked	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 asked	nsubj
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 going	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 asked	iobj
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 going	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 going	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 going	aux
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 earn	mark
19	earn	earn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 going	xcomp
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 bread	nmod:poss
21	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 earn	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wanted	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 wanted	nsubj
24	actually	actually	ADV	_	25 wanted	advmod
25	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 going	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 learn	mark
27	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 wanted	xcomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 shudder	mark
29	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 learn	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	infinitive					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	father				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	past	I		father		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	go	past · progressive	father				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	earn	to-infinitive	father not said here	father's bread			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme
6	want	past	father			actually property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	learn not said to happen	to-infinitive	father not said here	shudder			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shudder=Topic

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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